IN-BETWEEN
Drama, DV feature, 93 minutes
Written and directed by Deborah Twiss
Produced by Stann Nakazono and Deborah Twiss

SYNOPSIS

Sometimes when a tragic event occurs, it takes time to come to terms with the magnitude of what has happened. Diane and Tommy are a Wall Street couple planning their wedding. Allison and Peter, a married couple starting a family, struggle with the decisions facing most career-driven people.  Kima longs to be a well-known writer. Their mundane lives take a radical shift when such a catastrophic event leads them down a new and strange path intertwining their destinies.

DIRECTOR

Deborah Twiss makes her directorial debut with this micro-budget drama with her one-year-old daughter on her back and her two-year-old son helping boom. Deborah is the co-writer/producer/star of riot grrrrl revenge film A GUN FOR JENNIFER (1997), and producer/actress of MOLOTOV SAMBA (2005).

REVIEWS

(from the 2005 Oldenburg Film Festival program)

In-Between - that  is a place and a state of mind in Deborah Twiss' ultra-low budget production.   The clear-cut  coordinates of ordinary  lives dissolve in her cinematic universe.   The film follows several people through the events of 9/11. Like Herk Harvey's experimental horror-classic "Carnival of Souls" small but strange changes creep into the everyday lives of the protagonists. There are signs and portents that reality is about to change.  At times no one notices the characters while in other instances the protagonists seem oblivious of their surroundings.  Then there is the enigmatic Bob with his plan to resettle his people to California.  Above all the hovering question who survived and who died in the attacks becomes ever harder to answer.  What is a dream, what  is real?  The audience is at  a loss.   The film ends with a nod to the energetic New York indie-scene, when it declares California, and thus Hollywood, as the ideal destination for dead souls.


(from kamera.co.uk by Marcelle Perks

Actress/producer Deborah Twiss made a deeply personal film with her directorial debut In Between (2005). Twiss moved to an apartment six blocks from the world trade centre just weeks before 9/11 and this film examines the tragedy though four relationships where each couple loses a partner in the blast. We become intimate with their lives before the tragedy (observing petty worries and romantic trysts) and then get to take a long, hard look at their partner's mourning period, observing them a year after the tragedy where they are still hurting and struggling to get on with their lives. Of course, most films are more concerned with the mechanics of creating tragedy than showing its effects, and the script benefits from the creation of an interim world, the 'in between' where the dead still very much present, unaware that they have been killed and reluctant to listen to Bob who is trying to send them to California (a sort of modern day heaven). Rather than being ghosts, they remain normal characters, so at first the audience assumes that they had amnesia and were missing persons. If there is a fault with the film, it's that the life after death scenario only hinted at, and that the audience is left unsure of the real forces in play. No doubt the depiction of such raw tragedy will have a particular resonance to American audiences.

SCREENINGS

Cannes 2005
2005 Oldenburg Film Festival

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CONTACT

COBBLE HILL FILMS
Deborah Twiss
646-337-6889
dtwiss@earthlink.net

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